Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers

As of 13 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 42 of 42 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2412.11231.

A citation records a reference. It does not transfer a finding from one paper to another.

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This paper cites Program Synthesis with Large Language Models.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Program Synthesis with Large Language Models

Reference 1

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Observation 4ac370c2-0533-4634-9e49-37eaf87a95d6 · outbound

This paper cites DeepSeek LLM: Scaling Open-Source Language Models with Longtermism.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers DeepSeek LLM: Scaling Open-Source Language Models with Longtermism

Reference 2

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This paper cites InternLM2 Technical Report.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers InternLM2 Technical Report

Reference 3

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Observation 10259e01-b9a6-4d1d-8f7f-08f58bd81cff · outbound

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Observation 85245dae-e03e-40be-abd3-7efad70f86da · outbound

This paper cites Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code

Reference 5

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Observation 09de2277-be39-4b33-8fea-d50b540ebbba · outbound

This paper cites Gonzalez, Ion Stoica, and Eric P.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Gonzalez, Ion Stoica, and Eric P

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Observation b0055a91-97c6-4f56-8fcf-da7164b8deca · outbound

This paper cites Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

Reference 7

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Observation ffd50adf-01a5-4c5b-8748-31b5edbdfca9 · outbound

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Self-play with Execution Feedback: Improving Instruction-following Capabilities of Large Language Models.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Self-play with Execution Feedback: Improving Instruction-following Capabilities of Large Language Models

Reference 9

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Observation f465516c-8e68-40d5-8463-6e321f97f725 · outbound

This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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This paper cites Hashimoto.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Hashimoto

Reference 11

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Observation 22e339e2-7109-48de-b20b-b298d636250e · outbound

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Hu, Yelong Shen, Phillip Wallis, Zeyuan Allen - Zhu, Yuanzhi Li, Shean Wang, Lu Wang, and Weizhu Chen.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Hu, Yelong Shen, Phillip Wallis, Zeyuan Allen - Zhu, Yuanzhi Li, Shean Wang, Lu Wang, and Weizhu Chen

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Observation e5e711b2-47d8-471f-b1a2-09cc8322d809 · outbound

This paper cites Mistral 7B.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Mistral 7B

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers o pf, Yannic Kilcher, Dimitri von R \

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Observation 6a5325a3-c085-415c-b088-940576c446fd · outbound

This paper cites WizardMath: Empowering Mathematical Reasoning for Large Language Models via Reinforced Evol-Instruct.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers WizardMath: Empowering Mathematical Reasoning for Large Language Models via Reinforced Evol-Instruct

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Observation 19999289-71b0-47d0-a9d0-0adc679ff725 · outbound

This paper cites GPT-4 Technical Report.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers GPT-4 Technical Report

Reference 24

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Observation bf9a0c29-ca18-4038-a359-19f8bbc23732 · outbound

This paper cites Hashimoto.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Hashimoto

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Smith, Daniel Khashabi, and Hannaneh Hajishirzi.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Smith, Daniel Khashabi, and Hannaneh Hajishirzi

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Magpie: Alignment Data Synthesis from Scratch by Prompting Aligned LLMs with Nothing

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This paper cites Stronger Models are NOT Stronger Teachers for Instruction Tuning.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Stronger Models are NOT Stronger Teachers for Instruction Tuning

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This paper cites Qwen2 Technical Report.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Qwen2 Technical Report

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Xing, Joseph E.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Xing, Joseph E

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers LlamaFactory: Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ Language Models

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models.

Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers online" 'onlinestring :=

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Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers write newline

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Tag-Evol: Achieving Efficient Instruction Evolving via Tag Injection cites this paper.

Tag-Evol: Achieving Efficient Instruction Evolving via Tag Injection Smaller Language Models Are Better Instruction Evolvers

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